adventures in retail

[extemporanea]

One of the side-effects of chronic fatigue is, it seems, its tendency to rot the memory. I have now honed to a fine and perfect point my ability to forget someone's name within approximately a second and a half of being introduced to them, which adds a particular dimension of terror to my teaching and curriculum advice activities. I also do not

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[bronchitikat]

It might be chronic fatigue, it might be anno domini, and no amount of R&R is going to help with that. Hmmm, I wonder how much R&R I could get in on the ground that it might be fatigue?

Over here the Post Office brought in a whizzy new computer system for Post Offices. That, it transpired, hallucinated many things - mainly financial losses. The PO eventually, reluctantly, admitted that the losses were hallucinations and not due to stupidity or criminal intent on the part of individual post masters, but not before many of them had (trying to take the 'easy' way out) admitted to 'taking' the money and been sentenced to prison.

You were fortunate with your checkout operator!

[dancing_crow]

I hear idio-idio-idiosyncracy in E B White's voice, from the tape of the book the younger child had and wore the oxide off. And I will always remember hearing him interviewed, and him mentioning that it took something like twelve takes to get through the scene where Charlotte dies without him sobbing. So I feel better when I get all verklempt over that part, or, it turns out, jsu thinking about that part.

[first_fallen]

They're just a small cucumber :-). Much less watery than the English variety, so especially favoured for tzatziki.